Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
ἔπος • (épos) n (genitive ἔπεος or ἔπους); third declension
- something spoken: speech, story, song
- one's word, promise
- word as opposed to deed
- subject
- a line of poetry
- (when discussing etymology or usage) an individual word
- (in the plural) epic poetry
- (the phrase, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, qualifying a hyperbolic statement) so to speak, roughly speaking, almost
- (the phrase, κατ᾽ ἔπος) word by word
Inflection
Third declension of
τὸ ἔπος;
τοῦ ἔπεος (Uncontracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ἔπος
|
τὼ ἔπεε
|
τᾰ̀ ἔπεᾰ
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ἔπεος
|
τοῖν ἐπέοιν
|
τῶν ἐπέων
|
| Dative |
τῷ ἔπεῐ̈
|
τοῖν ἐπέοιν
|
τοῖς ἔπεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ἔπος
|
τὼ ἔπεε
|
τᾰ̀ ἔπεᾰ
|
| Vocative |
ἔπος
|
ἔπεε
|
ἔπεᾰ
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
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Third declension of
τὸ ἔπος;
τοῦ ἔπους (Contracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ἔπος
|
τὼ ἔπει
|
τᾰ̀ ἔπη
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ἔπους
|
τοῖν ἐποῖν
|
τῶν ἐπῶν
|
| Dative |
τῷ ἔπει
|
τοῖν ἐποῖν
|
τοῖς ἔπεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ἔπος
|
τὼ ἔπει
|
τᾰ̀ ἔπη
|
| Vocative |
ἔπος
|
ἔπει
|
ἔπη
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
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Related terms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (word): ἔργον (érgon, “deed”)
- (epic poetry): μέλη (mélē), ἰαμβεῖα (iambeîa), διθύραμβοι (dithúramboi)
Descendants
- → Russian: э́пос (épos)
- → Old Armenian: վէպ (vēp) (possibly)
References
- ἔπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔπος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔπος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ἔπος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἔπος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἔπος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2031”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.